by Zach Dawes Jr | Jun 6, 2022 | News
There were 5,500,600 adults in the U.S. correctional system at the end of 2020, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report published in late March 2022. This is the lowest level since 1996, when 5,531,200 adults were in the system, and it continues more than a...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Dec 29, 2021 | News
There were 1,215,821 people in U.S. state and federal prisons at the end of 2020 and 549,100 in U.S. jails at mid-year 2020, according to two Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reports published in early December. This is a 15% (214,400-person) and a 25%...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Sep 27, 2021 | News
Bias against a victim’s religious tradition was the third largest basis for hate crimes in the U.S. during 2020, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) data released in late August. Religious bias was the basis for 13.4% of last year’s hate crime...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Aug 6, 2021 | News
The total population in U.S. correctional systems dropped in 2019, marking the 12th straight year of declines, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report published on July 16. At the end of the year in 2019, there were just over 6.3 million people in...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 8, 2020 | News
The U.S. prison population continued a multiyear decline in 2018, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report published in late April 2020. Overall, there was a 1.6% decrease in the total prison population in 2018, falling from nearly 1.49 million inmates...
